[mdt.dev] Update

[Kenneth Hussey <khussey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Team,

Congratulations on a (mostly) successful
Europa release! Despite a few hiccups, I think things went reasonably well.
Note that there are still a few 1.0 plan items that are not yet in resolved
state - please work toward getting your bugs updated in Bugzilla
as soon as you can.

At this time, I'd like to call on your
help in doing a post mortem on the MDT 1.0 release. It would be great if
you could share your perspectives on what went well and what didn't go
so well for this release, and also any ideas you may have on improvements
we can make for the next release. I'll do my best to work with the Modeling
PMC and our committer representatives at the Foundation to ensure that
your feedback is given proper consideration.

Now is also the time to start planning
for the next release. I will be putting together a draft plan for MDT 1.1
over the next few weeks. Please start thinking about the items you would
like to include for your components.

Finally, there are a number of committers
on the various MDT components that were inactive during this development
cycle (i.e. they haven't committed any changes in the past year). Component
leads, please give some thought as to whether any of the committers on
your component should be removed. Note the following excerpt from the Eclipse
Development Process:

Becoming a Committer is a privilege that
is earned by contributing and showing discipline and good
judgment. It is a responsibility that should be neither given nor taken
lightly, nor is it a right based on employment by an Eclipse Member company
or any company employing existing committers.

We, as the MDT development team, have
a responsibility to ensure that (all of the) committers on the MDT project
influence the project's development in a positive way; IMHO, it does not
serve the Eclipse community's best interests to retain committers that
do not actively participate in this development... 

Thanks,

Kenn Hussey

Senior Software Developer
Rational Software, IBM Software Group

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